Re: dpkg: error processing... for quite some days now?

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Tom wrote:

> Hey ho,
>
> As the subject says: since about a week, I have quite a lot of packages
> (about three a day) that end, when apt-get upgrading, in dpkg errors.
>
> All of them seem to be GTK-related (i.e. depend on it), but that might
> just be a coincidence.
>
> Today looks like this:
>
> Setting up capplets-data (2.10.1-6) ...
> dpkg: error processing capplets-data (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up eog (2.10.2-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing eog (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-control-center:
> gnome-control-center depends on capplets-data (= 1:2.10.1-6); however:
>  Package capplets-data is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> capplets-data
> eog
> gnome-control-center
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Which distribution are you running?

Are there any third party repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list?

Did you run apt-get update before running apt-get upgrade?

Just for the record, I updated eog recently on a Debian sid machine and 
I did not get any such errors.

raju

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